Case study: Melatonin

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I discuss melatonin's effects on sleep & its safety; I segue into the general benefits of sleep and the severely disrupted sleep of the modern Western world, the cost of melatonin use and the benefit (eg. enforcing regular bedtimes), followed by a basic cost-benefit analysis of melatonin concluding that the net profit is large enough to be worth giving it a try barring unusual conditions or very pessimistic safety estimates.

Full essay: http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

I discuss melatonin's effects on sleep & its safety; I segue into the general benefits of sleep and the severely disrupted sleep of the modern Western world, the cost of melatonin use and the benefit (eg. enforcing regular bedtimes), followed by a basic cost-benefit analysis of melatonin concluding that the net profit is large enough to be worth giving it a try barring unusual conditions or very pessimistic safety estimates.

Full essay: http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

I've done an informal polling of my friends whom I've introduced to melatonin, and the majority of them noticed more vivid dreams without me mentioning it.

I use it only occasionally, but the effect it has on my dreams is too large to fake (and I noticed it before ever hearing that it was supposedly a common side effect)

I've noticed it too, but I didn't really think it germane to a cost-benefit evaluation. More dreams is a mixed blessing in general - unless one wants to do lucid dreaming, which is an entirely different kettle of fish, and this little essay covers enough as it is.

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